On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, John Coffey wrote:

> Dan, I already use this option, however it does not appear to prevent the
> automatic CWD when I first login. That option appears to only be used for
> traversing directories when already logged in.

The first? So where does that CWD take you? Aren't you talking about the PWD?

Can you show us a verbose output to show what curl does (wrongly) in your
case?

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